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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

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